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The Election Market Won in Court. Now It Has to Win the Argument.
Kalshi's election contracts now trade uncapped after the CFTC dropped its fight, and whether that counts as progress turns on a mechanism Robin Hanson has been deriving since 1988.
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In coastal cities, a home costs twice what it takes to build one
That gap is a tax with no government behind it, collected by the Americans who already own homes and charged to everyone who wants in.
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The New Data-Center Load Could Exceed America's Entire Nuclear Fleet
By 2028 data centers could draw up to 132 gigawatts of continuous power, more than the entire U.S. nuclear fleet supplies today, forcing a choice about which firm clean source can be built fast enough to feed them.